No. We know that *Plutarch,* writing some *500 years* after Leonidas purportedly wrote (not said, but wrote) this, *claims* that Leonidas wrote it. That is *not* the same thing as smoking-gun proof that Leonidas did in fact write it. It is very likely apocryphal.https://twitter.com/BeIzerker/status/1313865283426152448 …
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Seriously? I always thought it was just movie-villain talk. Anyone who says it for real is a damn fool, on top of the obvious evil.
Effective COIN requires not doing the thing which feels natural (massive retaliation against the community that produces the guys that kill your friends) in order to succeed. it is a profoundly 'unnatural' form of warfare. "Caedite Eos" is, sadly, the natural form of warfare.
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Yeah, I still saw the slogan on patches and shirts when I was in Baghdad when Obama was inaugurated.
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Wow. No wonder the US lost that one.
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